“…Despite of the subsequent label and lineup changes, American Hi-Fi try their best to keep their passion alive. Staying in a major label, moving on to an independent record company, appearing in a Hollywood movie, putting out their new work on their own, and eventually finding their home at yet another indie label Rude Records has ben a long journey for American Hi-Fi as well as their die hard fans. Nonetheless, the band didn’t failed to produce unforgettable hits like “The Art Of Losing”, “The Geeks Get the Girls” and “The Break Up Song”, successfully secures their niche in the American popular culture…”

Another gig for your pleasure! Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s music organization POLYMUSO is bringing Arizona’s metalcore outfits Blessthefall to Hong Kong for their 40th Annual Performance! The lineup also include our local heavy metal group 鐵樹蘭, metalcore noisemaker Maniac and newcomer Seasons for Change. POLYMUSO’s crew will also showcase their youth power to the stage! Get your tickets in the outlets below.

Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam metal is known as “the most brutal” type of extreme metal and in June, Viscera Trail from Israel is going to show you what it means to be heavy, fast and violent! Something’s gonna go wrong…

Probably by far the best post-rock event of the year! Icelandic post-rock veterans God Is An Astronaut will team up with British post-rock outfits Yndi Halda for a co-headline show in Hong Kong next month. We had followed GIAA in their full-house show in Hong Kong in 2014 which had stunned us from the intro to the end!

Ex-Nightwish frontwoman Tarja Turunen shares new video “No Bitter End” taken from her prequel record, The Brightest Void, out on June 3, before her upcoming solo full-length album The Shadow Self on August 5. Turunen will perform in Hong Kong in June, check out the concert details below.

Japanese metalcore outfits Crystal Lake decides to offer a helping hand to their friends at The Ghost Inside. The band premiered a new cover of the Ghost Inside’s “Wide Eyed,” with all profits from the song will go to the Ghost Inside for medical expenses due to the tragic bus accident in November where the band were seriously injured. Epitaph Records had also issued a statement two months ago that all proceeds of TGI’s albums will go to the band directly.

After all the metal concerts in Hong Kong in the last few weeks, does it bring back your love for the metal genre? Finnish symphony / power metal outfits Stratovarius released a lyric video for their track “Until The End Of Days.” The song will appear on their upcoming Best Of compilation out on May 6.

Frontman Timo Kotipelto explains, “Twenty years in Stratovarius have passed at the speed of light. I still remember when I joined the band and was happy to do some power metal. And I am very happy to still be able to do it after all these years.”

Headbang when you still can! Slayer frontman Tom Araya has admitted that he misses the physical connection he had with the band’s songs while he was still able to headbang during concerts.
He underwent back surgery in 2010 to address fused vertebrae, meaning that he’s no longer able to perform with the dramatic motions he used to display. Araya tells Loudwire: “There’s things that have gone on in my life that’s made me change how I play. I had surgery – I can’t headbang any more.

“That was a big part of what I enjoyed. I liked knowing I was one badass headbanger. Now I’m grooving with the music and the feel of the songs, which is cool. The physical connection was a big part for me.” (via Classic Rock)

The rumor has confirmed. Guns & Roses’ Axl Rose will fill in as the vocalist for AC/DC for the remaining dates of their European and US tour because Brian Johnson is in danger of suffering “total hearing loss”.

Johnson issued a lengthy statement today “On March 7th, after a series of examinations by leading physicians in the field of hearing loss, I was advised that if I continue to perform at large venues, I risked total deafness… I was having difficulty hearing the guitars on stage and because I was not able to hear the other musicians clearly, I feared the quality of my performance could be compromised. It was the darkest day of my professional life…”

Remember the throne Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl was sitting on during concerts when his leg was injured last year? Yesterday Grohl decided to lend it to Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose for his band’s reunion shows because Rose sustained a broken foot last week, leaving him in a cast and with six temporary screws holding a bone together. But luckily the show could go on with the throne of rock and roll!

Ramones 領軍人物、 東岸朋克歷史中其中一個最重要的樂手 Joey Ramone 與十五年前的四月十五日逝世。在他的獨立作品 Mr. Punchy 中，他以此作結：「Everybody’s screwed up in their own special way (所有人都有各自的特別方法把生命弄得一團糟！)」那可能是總結人生最佳的朋克名言。

Joey Ramone, the frontman of Ramones and one of the most noticeable figure in the East Coast punk scene, passed away 15 years ago this week (April 15). In his solo work, “Mr. Punchy”, he sang “Everybody’s screwed up in their own special way!” Probably perfectly sum up the meaning of life in the punk rock way.

20 years ago this week, Rage Against The Machine released their second album “Evil Empire”. Let’s enjoy some classic rock and roll on a Saturday night. (And after all these years, you’d still wonder which empire in the world is not evil…)